Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded for discovery of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen
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Scientists William Kaelin, Peter Ratcliffe and Gregg Semenza have won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to the availability of oxygen, the Nobel Prize committee announced on Monday.
“The seminal discoveries by this year’s Nobel laureates revealed the mechanism for one of life’s most essential adaptive processes,” the Nobel Assembly at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute said.
On Tuesday, the prize for physics is awarded, followed by chemistry on Wednesday.
A combo of handout photos made available by the University of Oxford, Johns Hopkins University and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute shows (L-R) British scientist Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe, US scientists Gregg L. Semenza and William G. Kaelin, issued 07 October 2019. US scientists William G. Kaelin and Gregg L. Semenza and British scientist Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe were awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine ‘for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability’, the Karolinska Institute in Solna, Sweden, announced on 07 October 2019. EPA-EFE/OXFORD/JOHNS HOPKINS/DANA FARBER HANDOUT
The 2018 and 2019 prizes for literature will be announced on Thursday. For the first time in 70 years, last year’s award was postponed as the institution found itself without a quorum to decide the winner.
